Sentence examples for bitumen mining from inspiring English sources

The Horizon Oil Sands Mining and Upgrading segment produces synthetic crude oil through bitumen mining and upgrading operations.

But for most of the 80 years since a scientist first spun tarsands in hot water to separate out a molasseslike crude oil called bitumen, mining ventures here have lost money.

But for most of the 80 years since a scientist first spun tar sands in hot water to separate out a molasseslike crude oil called bitumen, mining ventures here have lost money.

Multi-spectral high resolution imagery data from SPOT5 and RapidEye were used for extraction and quantification of the anthropogenic and natural changes for a case study of Alberta bitumen (oil sands) mining located in the Western Boreal Plains near Fort McMurray, Canada.

The Oil Sands segment recovers and upgrades bitumen from mining and in situ operations into synthetic crude oil for refinery feedstock and diesel fuel.

Although there is in-situ extraction in the Athabasca area, the region is dominated by bitumen extraction through open pit mining.

Oil shale is fossilized algae trapped inside rock that must be mined, ground up and heated to 900 degrees Fahrenheit to yield oil. Oil sands contain bitumen, a heavy black viscous oil that is extracted through open pit mining.

The companies are now mining 1.3m barrels a day of heavy crude oil from the sands, which are saturated with bitumen.

The waste came from a "tailings pond," an open-air pit that mines use to store the leftovers of mining things like gold, copper, and, perhaps most notably in Canada, the tar sands the oil-laden bitumen composites that have made the Keystone XL Pipeline so controversial.

At its laboratory in Calgary, the company's scientists are working on a spin container that could separate bitumen from sand and clay with almost no water, saving energy and alleviating the need to contain vast toxic waste in tailings ponds that pose a threat to wildlife and wetlands around mining sites.

The results of that innovation are now starting to be deployed.Many operators now extract the bitumen without strip mining.